”Joshua Abelow, Self-Portrait, 12×9″, 2010

Office Hours is pleased to announce its debut exhibition:

Joshua Abelow
March 26, May 11, 2012

Opening Monday, March 26, 9:00 a.m.-1:35 p.m.
Refreshments will be served.
Open Mondays and Wednesdays 9:00-9:35 / 11:25-11:45,
and by appointment: pamela.fraser@uvm.edu

Joshua Abelow was born in 1976 in Frederick, Maryland.  He earned his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1998 and his MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2008.  He has had solo shows in New York at James Fuentes and in Toronto at Tomorrow Gallery.  Abelow has an upcoming solo exhibition at Sorry We’re Closed in Brussels, Belgium.  His work has been included in numerous group shows including “Tailgates & Substitutes” at Thierry Goldberg, New York City, “Go Figure” at Dodge Gallery, New York City, “Behind the Curtain, A Lock of Hair Falling” at Gallery Diet in Miami, and “Color Me Bad” at Nudashank, Baltimore.  During the summer of 2011 Abelow oversaw a series of curatorial projects at “ART BLOG ART BLOG” a gallery space he conceived in the Chelsea studio of his friend and former employer Ross Bleckner.  In the fall of 2011, he published a memoir “Painter’s Journal” about his adventures as a burgeoning young artist in New York City in the late 1990s.  The book will be widely released in concurrence with Abelow’s solo booth with James Fuentes at the first ever Frieze New York, in May of 2012.  You can find Abelow online at ART BLOG ART BLOG; http://joshuaabelow.blogspot.com/

Office Hours is an art exhibition space in an informal setting, the university office of Professor Pamela Fraser.

The University of Vermont, 211 Williams Hall, 72 University Place, Burlington, VT. For more information and this terms hours, please email pamela.fraser@uvm.edu